The Infinite Copy Machine

Sluggish Season Two

There are many ways to become internet famous. Sometimes it's great, other times — not so much.Quinn Norton about the online version of you that lives on the internet and about why you shouldn't take naked selfies.

Techno Viking — How Viral Happens

A legendary superhero becomes a massively popular meme and keeps his secret identity.A story about how what happens to the stuff that you put online could be beyond your imagination.

You can find Fritsch's documentary, "The Story Of Techno Viking" here:technoviking.tv/

Fritsch has also mixed many of the tributes into a single video compilation:

To Dive Or Not To Dive

In this episode we look at what football goalkeepers are doing wrong, decision making psychology and economics to explore the option most people don’t even consider–not doing anything.

Notes For This Episode

You can read more about Bar-Eli’s research hereand learn more about the biases of decision making according to Daniel Kahneman in his book Thinking, Fast and Slow. Trading is Hazardous to your wealth can be found here. There is an actual study proving that changing lanes does not make you go faster which can be found here and an excellent article by Atul Gawande about theproblem of too much medical care. The Sherlock Holmes story is called Silver Blaze.

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SEASON TWO

There are many ways to become internet famous. Sometimes it's great, other times—not so much. In the next two videos we look at what happens when the stuff that you put online spreads beyond your imagination.

SEASON ONE

What are the upsides of doing nothing? The first season takes on the current universal obsession with the concept of productivity while trying to explore the benefits of wasting your time.

It’s pretty much your best chance to feel good about wasting your time watching online videos.